by Barrie Wyatt | Jul 25, 2013 | Change, Property, Strategy, Voluntary and Community
Before I took early retirement in 2011 I was seconded to the Cabinet Office to lead a project in Bristol with the aim of rationalising the office accommodation of Central Government. It was an interesting challenge, and Bristol (along with London) were the pilots for...
by Barrie Wyatt | Apr 7, 2013 | Change, Coaching, Personal Development, Strategy, Vision
The idea of categorising the world into hedgehogs and foxes has a long and distinguished past. An ancient Greek poem (possibly written by Archilochus) concluded with: The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. In this poem, a cunning fox wants to...
by Barrie Wyatt | Feb 18, 2013 | Personal Development, Strategy, Vision
I recently came across a quote by Og Mandino that went: “I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.” It got me thinking why that might be apart from the obvious fact that there is a book in The Bible called the...
by Barrie Wyatt | Nov 5, 2012 | Coaching, Personal Development, Strategy
I started my blog A Practical Introduction to Coaching with the thought that coaching is about asking questions. The second blog in this series on coaching (The GROW Model) highlighted the importance of asking the right questions. But what are the ‘right’...
by Barrie Wyatt | Aug 31, 2012 | Strategy, Vision
Without a vision … King Solomon once said that “without a vision the people perish”. And more recently George Washington Carver observed that “where there is no vision, there is no hope”. As someone who has been involved in strategy...
